3 Hidden Google Ads Settings Causing Spam Leads

Turn off Google Search Partners and the Display Network to cut spam leads. Set location targeting to "presence" only, not "presence or interest," so your ads reach people actually in your area, not just interested in it.
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Here are the three Google Ads settings I turn off in every account to stop spam and bot traffic. Okay, Number one, make sure you have search partners turned off. Simply go into your search campaign, go to your campaign settings and inside of the settings you will find your networks. Here you want to make sure search network is not included. So if you see the blue check mark next to include Google search partners, you're going to want to make sure that's turned off. Usually big culprit of spam, your starting to get spam. Number two is actually in the same settings of the campaign and that is this display network settings. So this if this blue check mark is next to include Google display network, you're going to want to make sure you turn that off as well. Display network on Google is an absolute sewer of garbage in my opinion. Number three, we have generated over $50 million in revenue for our clients using Performance Max campaigns. We decided we're going to download our knowledge of max campaigns into a free, easy, practical course and just give it away to the community. Comment PMAX below and I'll send you the free PMAX course directly to your DMs. Go grab this free course and I'll see you inside. Number three is actually location targeting. So if you are specifically targeting a geo area, so a state, a country, then you'll want to make sure your location settings are set up correctly. So again we're going to go into the campaign settings here and and all you do is go down to this locations, right? You go to this location option setting here. You want to make sure presence is set. So it's presence people in or regularly in your included locations. You don't want presence or interest. When you include interest, you're allowing Google to show ads to people who have shown interest in your location.
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